All-round view
In The Age , Brendan McArdle predicts the increasing demand for allrounders in Australia
The Surfer
25-Feb-2013
In The Age, Brendan McArdle predicts the increasing demand for allrounders in Australia. He writes:
Things have changed dramatically since Australia won the past World Cup with a Test-class pace attack. The next tournament [World Cup] in the West Indies in 2007 could feature as few as two specialist bowlers in the starting XI, with the balance of the bowling done by all-rounders.
But what are the selectors thinking? Merv Hughes, one of the Australian selectors, speaks to Malcolm Conn about the difficulty of the task.